I thought it would be fun for each of us to share the worst wedding faux pas we’ve encountered. You know…not only to warn others of the mistakes, but also to rant and laugh…!

I’ll go first–we were invited to a wedding about 3 months ago that is in just under 3 weeks. We accepted. We received a REMINDER ABOUT THE WEDDING REGISTRY IN THE MAIL TODAY. Yes, bees, it’s true. A little card stating, “Wedding bells are in the air! We can’t wait to spend our day with you on May 10. Don’t forget, we are registered at Walmart and Bed Bath and Beyond”. My jaw dropped.

We got a group e mail with the bank account details of the couple so we could all transfer them cash wedding presents.

We (along with many others) were invited to an engagement party which had a honeymoon registry insert in the invite – most of the people who attended and gave gifts were then not invited to the wedding itself.

aussiemum1248: This happened to me. My middle sister has a mental illness, and my cousin clearly didn’t want to invite her to his wedding out of fear that she would make a scene or something. So he invited my oldest sister and her spouse, but my middle sister and I were not invited. I’m still pretty offended about it, as I don’t think it was fair to exclude me just to make it less obvious that you didn’t want my middle sister there. People are really weird when it comes to invites.

MrsEdamame: No, they were even introducing one guy at the engagement party to people as their expected emcee for the wedding and not even he scored an invite! I think they realised that they didn’t want to pay for that many people at their reception in the end so slashed the list. Mind you after asking for gifts at their engagement party they didn’t even supply any drinks, we had to purchase it all ourselves at regular bar prices (not cheap here).

emilythehutt: Oh man … That is so crass. I cannot believe that someone would do that!

The worst I have encountered was this girl put as her Facebook status “Save the Date becomes informal – save the date for [date]” and all 200 of her Facebook friends could see it. Let me say that just about everyone was wondering if they had an invitation. Then she sent an invitation to me for her bridal shower and our wedding invite had been “lost”. People were uninvited to her stag and doe by her MOH who had personal vendettas. The entire thing was a mess and caused hurt feelings/bad tastes in peoples mouths.

emilythehutt: One guest asked me what color would be appropriate for her to wear. I told her my dress was a warm ivory color, so I’d prefer she wear nothing light colored. She then announced she would be wearing white. I have seen the dress in question and it is stark raving white. Long, tiered, flowing, and as white as it gets. She is the only guest to ask about what to wear! Pretty funny really.

Another guest announced she was bringing a plus one, and ALSO that they were coming because they want to see our venue as they plan to get married there (they are not engaged at this point). Yep, fine. Good to know that. LOL

Lollybags: Terrible hosts. What happened with our generation? When did people lose the ability for basic etiquette skills?? I think weddings have warped their sense of “Acceptable” and “Unacceptable” behavior.

laceydoilies: I once had a friend post, on a Facebook status, “Thanks for attending our wedding! In leu of thank you notes, [groom’s name] is training to run in a 5K!” At first I thought it was a joke — it most definitely was not, as no thank you note ever materialized.

Since when did an investment in your personal health excuse you from properly thanking people for gifts? lol